Recaps

Feng Ling fled the Messenger’s Doomsday Judgment as its blinding light and the Bombs’ explosions devastated the General’s Mansion. She endured the attack by repeatedly creating Water Mist and relying on the Hive’s self-repair, while Huang Yi’s team prepared to move in as the Messenger’s energy dwindled.

• The Messenger rose into the sky and stopped, prompting Feng Ling to realize he might unleash Doomsday Judgment alongside the Bombs.
• Feng Ling ran away from Huang Yi’s approaching convoy as the heat intensified and her companions fled the battlefield.
• The Messenger became a blazing sphere of light, which burned Feng Ling and the Yilanka Soldiers before the Bombs exploded.
• Feng Ling curled into her Serpent Body, drew on the Hive’s self-repair, and repeatedly created Water Mist to withstand the light.
• Huang Yi’s analyst reported that the Messenger’s energy was weakening while Feng Ling’s remained stable, and Huang Yi ordered the team to prepare to finish the fight.

After the Messenger’s judgment devastated the area, Huang Yi’s team tried to finish it off, but a Stitched Beast rescued it and fled through a Teleportation Array. Feng Ling pursued the pair into the array, leaving Huang Yi to secure its entrance.

• Huang Yi’s team crossed into the scorched grounds and approached the weakened Messenger, planning to have their sniper attack after its protective halo faded.
• An enormous Stitched Beast burst from the mist, grabbed the Messenger, and charged Huang Yi’s team after they opened fire.
• Feng Ling emerged from the mist and pinned the Stitched Beast with her tentacles, but it shed layers of its body and escaped with the Messenger.
• Feng Ling pursued the Stitched Beast through the ruins, summoning her Contaminants while the chaos around it disrupted her senses.
• Feng Ling plunged into the Teleportation Array, followed by the Human-faced Crows and then the Tiger Head Worm.
• Huang Yi arrived as the array faded and ordered his team to surround it and keep living creatures away.

Huang Yi sealed off the Teleportation Array and learned that Ye Zheng was fighting Huangfu Miaomiao nearby. Ye Zheng returned after suspecting Meteor had deceived her, only to discover Meteor had killed the Labyrinth Administrators and kept one alive as a supposed gesture of cooperation.

• Huang Yi ordered his team to secure the Teleportation Array and told Sritaya's general that the Contaminants must not be provoked.
• Huang Yi's team found footage of Ye Zheng fighting Huangfu Miaomiao six kilometers away.
• Ye Zheng escaped the General's Mansion with the Labyrinth Administrators, but grew anxious about Feng Ling and debated whether to return.
• Meteor caught up with Ye Zheng and claimed Feng Ling was in danger, so Ye Zheng handed Meteor the animals and raced toward the Mansion.
• Ye Zheng suspected Meteor's warning was false, turned back, and found the Labyrinth Administrators dead.
• Meteor said she had spared the Underworld Labyrinth Administrator and insisted that killing the others had not broken their agreement.

Ye Zheng fought Meteor while trying to protect the last Labyrinth Administrator, and Meteor provoked her with revelations about her past. After Li Qing intervened and Meteor attacked him, Ye Zheng regained control, and Meteor escaped after returning the Administrator and promising to trade back Miaomiao’s body.

• Ye Zheng and Meteor clashed, but Ye Zheng held back when Meteor used the bag containing the last Labyrinth Administrator as a shield.
• Meteor accused Ye Zheng of treating Miaomiao like a pet and revealed that she had founded the Star Society and planned Paradise’s construction.
• Meteor provoked Ye Zheng by calling her a monster and exposing her role as a Contaminant, nearly driving her to lose control.
• Li Qing warned Ye Zheng that Meteor was trying to make humans turn against each other, so Meteor attacked him and stabbed him through the heart.
• Ye Zheng regained her senses as Meteor threw her the bag and escaped through a drainage ditch, promising to trade back Miaomiao’s body.

After Meteor escaped, Li Qing told Ye Zheng that Meteor had been a Xenomorph impersonating Miaomiao and urged her to warn Feng Ling. Number 77 revealed that Meteor had tried to kill the Labyrinth Administrators to force the glitched game to settle, while Ye Zheng struggled with her own sense of being a monster.

• Ye Zheng treated the injured Tree Shrew Administrator with a Recovery Potion while Li Qing warned that its body was failing and told her to contact Feng Ling about Meteor.
• Li Qing summoned Number 77, a Green Parrot, which explained that Meteor had deliberately exposed the group to Xenomorphs and had been imprisoned in Hell after the other Players opposed her plan.
• Number 77 explained that the game’s quarterly settlement had glitched, trapping the Administrators, and that a Player could earn a Ticket to Central City by ranking first and meeting the Abyss Boss conditions.
• Ye Zheng realized that conquering the Mazes could let Administrators log out without being killed, but Number 77 said Meteor had hurried to force settlement because she feared losing her first-place ranking.

Ye Zheng learned that Meteor had killed eight Senior Administrators and seven ordinary Administrators, and concluded that the Short-legged Sheep had to survive to keep Meteor trapped in the world. With Feng Ling missing inside a Xenomorph’s Teleportation Array, Huang Yi prepared to take the surviving Administrators into key protection, while Ye Zheng asked to be flown up to the enormous Kite.

• Ye Zheng questioned the Parrot, which explained that Meteor wanted Administrator deaths to trigger the game’s self-repair program and that the game would continue while the Short-legged Sheep remained alive.
• Ye Zheng concluded that the Short-legged Sheep could not die if Meteor was to remain trapped in the world.
• Huang Yi arrived with the Surveillance Team, which counted eight dead Senior Administrators, seven dead ordinary Administrators, and two burned animal attendants.
• Ye Zheng warned Huang Yi that Pollution Spread could occur in seventeen Mazes and that the Abyss Boss entering the real world would cause a major disaster.
• Huang Yi told Ye Zheng that Feng Ling was missing after entering a Xenomorph’s Teleportation Array and said he would take the Parrot and Green Weasel for key protection.
• A huge Kite flew overhead, and Ye Zheng asked Huang Yi to arrange a helicopter so she could reach it.

Ling Feiran traveled by special train to the Quarantine Zone, where Wang Xunmei helped her connect with the other volunteers. Wang Xunmei discovered Feng Ling on Ling Feiran’s friend list, leaving her shocked.

• Ling Feiran boarded the volunteer train and reflected on why she had chosen to work in the Quarantine Zone.
• Wang Xunmei introduced herself to Ling Feiran and shared candy as other volunteers, including Lin Pengpeng, Li Yu, and Zhang Lu, joined them.
• The volunteers discussed their teams and Cards, and Ling Feiran explained that she could treat illnesses caused by viruses.
• Wang Xunmei taught Ling Feiran how to add friends, then spotted Feng Ling’s name on her phone and reacted in disbelief.

Ling Feiran told Wang Xunmei and the others that Feng Ling was an old acquaintance and asked them not to reveal their connection. Their conversation was interrupted by news footage of Feng Ling battling Xenomorphs in Yilanka, where the attack left no survivors and the creatures disappeared.

• Ling Feiran explained that she had known Feng Ling as a child but had not seen her in more than ten years, and asked Wang Xunmei, Li Yu, Lin Pengpeng, and Zhang Lu not to call them friends or tell anyone about their connection.
• Zhang Lu described Ling Feiran as a highly sensitive introvert, and Wang Xunmei and the others agreed to keep her connection to Feng Ling private.
• A passenger announced that Feng Ling was fighting in Yilanka, and Ling Feiran and the others watched footage released by the Supervisor General Bureau.
• The footage showed Feng Ling's Six-winged Angel battling a Flood Dragon Serpent called the Messenger as Steel Blades struck its Air Shield.
• The Messenger rose into the air and unleashed light across the area, while the Flood Dragon Serpent retreated and distant people screamed.
• The news anchor reported that the General's Mansion was in ruins, no signs of life had been found, and the Xenomorph and Hunter responsible had disappeared.

Ling Feiran anxiously searched for news about Feng Ling after learning that Feng Ling and the Xenomorph were missing in Yilanka. Online reports suggested they had vanished while pursuing a terrifying monster, and a multinational Drone relay race began following Kite’s tail in hopes of finding them.

• Ling Feiran called Feng Ling but could not reach her, and her companions urged her to wait for more information from the Supervision Bureau.
• Ling Feiran messaged Su Yuqing for details, but Su Yuqing did not reply, leaving Ling Feiran helpless and anxious.
• Ling Feiran read online comments claiming Feng Ling pursued a monster and the Xenomorph eastward before they all suddenly vanished.
• Ling Feiran joined Smoked Roe’s livestream, where viewers watched Kite’s tail from a Drone and called for help when the Drone began running out of range.
• Netizens from Yilanka and Sritaya joined viewers from other countries in relaying Drones to follow Kite and search for Feng Ling.

Feng Ling pursued the Stitched Beast and Messenger into a sandstorm that disabled Third Perspective and trapped her among regenerating Pottery Men. She escaped with help from her Human-faced Crows and Tiger Head Worms, but emerged unable to identify the Messenger’s trail.

• Feng Ling followed the Stitched Beast and Messenger into the sandstorm, where Third Perspective failed and she lost sight of their Red Dots.
• Feng Ling destroyed a Pottery Man by smashing its pottery jar, but the fight left her disoriented inside the storm.
• Feng Ling tried to escape the sandstorm, fought off several more Pottery Men, and feared she would be buried in the accumulating sand.
• Feng Ling heard the cries of her Human-faced Crows and Tiger Head Worms, followed their presence, and reached the storm’s edge.
• Feng Ling burst out of the sandstorm and regained Third Perspective, but Red Dots covered the desert and she could not locate the Messenger.

Feng Ling waited outside the shifting sandstorm, determined to capture the Messenger and the other Xenomorphs after they escaped her. After spending a sleepless night preparing, she entered the storm again at dawn, but the rising heat soon slowed her progress and began to overwhelm her companions.

• Feng Ling realized the moving sandstorm protected the Xenomorphs and decided to hold its perimeter until the Messenger recovered.
• Feng Ling led the Tiger Head Worm and the diminished Human-faced Crows to shelter in a rock burrow, where she killed mutated Sand Rats to replenish them.
• Feng Ling spent the night tracking the Xenomorphs with Third Perspective and resolved to enter the sandstorm again without changing course.
• Feng Ling rode the Tiger Head Worm into the desert at dawn, but the scorching heat forced her to continue on foot as the Human-faced Crows began to falter.

Feng Ling crossed the scorching desert and rescued a Camel Caravan from a swarm of Scorpions. After accepting the caravan’s supplies and a white camel, she realized the food had made her feel full and suspected the travelers were not ordinary humans.

• Feng Ling sent Third Child back to the rat hole, left Big Worm beneath the sand, and continued alone through the desert heat.
• Feng Ling spotted a Camel Caravan whose riders appeared as Red Dots in Third Perspective.
• Scorpions attacked the caravan, and Feng Ling killed them before they could kill more people and camels.
• The caravan’s Leader offered Feng Ling food, clothing, a curved blade, and a white camel after she asked for a phone.
• Feng Ling accepted the supplies and decided to escort the caravan a limited distance while keeping the Xenomorphs within range.
• After eating the caravan’s jerky and flatbread, Feng Ling felt unusually full and suspected the travelers were not ordinary humans.

Feng Ling reached an Oasis, recovered her stamina and reduced her Corruption Value at a Labyrinth Divine Statue, then reunited with Meteor. Meteor explained that the Maze was hidden in the Lut Desert and revealed that Momo had guarded the Teleportation Array and grown stronger after being fed Cards.

• Feng Ling donned a traditional outfit that eased the heat, then followed the Camel Caravan to an Oasis in the desert.
• Feng Ling found a Labyrinth Divine Statue in the Oasis lake and used the Killer Bee and Centipede Cards to lower her Corruption Value to 28%.
• Feng Ling encountered Meteor trading Desert Scorpions and assumed she could leave the Maze to alert Ye Zheng and the Daoist priest.
• Meteor explained that Players needed a Language Scroll to communicate with the Oasis's NPCs, then used one to tell Feng Ling the Administrator had died half a year earlier and the Messenger had hidden the Maze's Teleportation Array in the Lut Desert.
• Feng Ling admitted she had failed to kill the Messenger, and Meteor identified Momo as the monster who had rescued him and said the Messenger had strengthened Momo by feeding him Cards.

Feng Ling and Meteor prepared to escort the Camel Caravan through the Sandstorm, discussing the Maze’s plot mission and stealing cooling clothes. As they traveled together, Feng Ling explained her past wariness of Huangfu Miaomiao and confessed that she wanted to suffer a harmless setback to become more humble.

• Meteor explained that the caravan had to reach the next plot trigger point without anyone being hurt, and that NPCs would lead them to the Stone Gate mechanism.
• Meteor stole a headscarf for Feng Ling, then assigned Feng Ling to guard the front of the caravan while she watched the middle and rear.
• Meteor told Feng Ling not to use pets or her Second Form so the ordinary human NPCs would not panic and scatter.
• Feng Ling explained that insecurity and her Corruption Value had made her suspicious of Huangfu Miaomiao in the past, and said that gaining power had improved her temper.
• Meteor warned that Feng Ling's arrogance could get her tripped up, and Feng Ling eagerly admitted she hoped for a survivable setback because her enemies had all been too weak to humble her.

Feng Ling and Meteor escorted the Camel Caravan through the desert while Meteor warned her about the Maze and its unknown Boss. Scorpions repeatedly disrupted the caravan, and a merchant died after trying to fight one.

• Feng Ling challenged Meteor’s warning that her strength came from the game, while Meteor described the former Hive as gentle and nearly defenseless.
• Meteor explained that no one in the Star Society had completed the Maze’s storyline, so they had never seen its Boss, and warned that Messenger might use it against Feng Ling.
• The Camel Caravan set out with eighty camels and forty merchants, and Feng Ling and Meteor repeatedly stopped to clear Scorpion Monsters from its path.
• As Scorpions attacked both ends of the caravan, Feng Ling rushed between them to protect the camels and merchants.
• A merchant jumped down to fight a Scorpion, but it stabbed him with its tail, and Feng Ling arrived too late to save him.

After the escort quest failed and a merchant died, Meteor slaughtered the caravan to force the Maze to restart the quest, while Feng Ling refused to kill people. As they rode back toward the Oasis, Feng Ling explained why she was determined to live peacefully, and Meteor promised to handle the killing herself if the quest failed again.

• Meteor found that the quest had failed after a merchant died, then knocked away the merchants' gratitude-reward box and attacked them with Demon Claw.
• Meteor explained that killing the caravan would make the Maze regenerate the quest NPCs, and she pursued and killed the fleeing merchants while Feng Ling watched.
• Meteor criticized Feng Ling for refusing to help, and Feng Ling said she would only kill people in self-defense because the caravan members were human.
• Meteor told Feng Ling the Player Forum rumored she was a violent criminal, and Feng Ling objected that Players were ruining her reputation.
• On the ride back to the Oasis, Feng Ling explained that her murderer parents had caused others to judge her as a potential criminal, and Meteor agreed that this was unfair.
• Feng Ling said she would try to kill more Scorpions next time, and Meteor promised to kill the caravan herself if the quest failed again.

Feng Ling and Meteor escorted the caravan into desert ruins, where the merchants became possessed by Vengeful Spirits and attacked them. The spirits fled into a sandstorm and opened a hidden Stone Gate in a giant Mountain, where the Messenger was waiting.

• Feng Ling learned that Meteor’s system could retrieve or manufacture living caravan members and wondered whether humans on Earth had been printed too.
• Meteor warned Feng Ling that the ruins were a Plot trigger point where all forty merchants would become Ghost Monsters immune to Mental Power.
• The merchants collapsed in the ruins, then rose possessed by Vengeful Spirits, and Meteor and Feng Ling fought them off.
• The spirits joined into a whirlwind and fled toward a sandstorm, so Meteor and Feng Ling pursued them toward the Treasure Vault.
• The spirits shouted before a giant Mountain, opening a Stone Gate, and Meteor told Feng Ling that the Bandits used the words “Open Sesame.”

Feng Ling and Meteor entered the thieves’ Treasure Vault to confront the Messenger, who tried to recruit Meteor into a battle party against the Hidden Boss. The Messenger’s allies attacked, and he activated a bloodstained gold coin, summoning Angra Mainyu as the Treasure Vault erupted into a new battle.

• Meteor explained that the Treasure Vault had served as the Star Society’s warehouse, then used stealth to enter with Feng Ling.
• Feng Ling and Meteor found the Messenger in the vault, where he warned Feng Ling that stepping forward would trigger a Boss battle.
• The Messenger revealed Momo and Doctor and tried to persuade Meteor to join a raid party, claiming Drunkard was on her way.
• Feng Ling prepared to fight as Meteor, Witch, Momo, and Doctor revealed themselves and attacked.
• The Messenger struck the floor with a bloodstained gold coin, raising a vast Mental Power Field as Angra Mainyu’s roar filled the vault.

Feng Ling and the others fell into the sand-filled chamber and faced the revived Corpse Soldiers as the Labyrinth Boss battle began. With the Monsters draining their strength and Bishop in danger, Messenger gave Witch Solomon's Silver Ring of Exorcism and asked her to escape with the boy.

• The Treasure Vault collapsed into sand, and Feng Ling, Meteor, Messenger, Witch, Doctor, Bishop, and the Xenomorph fell into the chamber below.
• Witch argued with Meteor about killing the Hidden Boss and returning Bishop to his parents, while Messenger blamed Meteor for Black Spot's death.
• Forty Corpse Soldiers rose from the sand and attacked, repeatedly reforming after Feng Ling struck them.
• Messenger handed Witch Solomon's Silver Ring of Exorcism and told her to take Bishop away and contact Drunkard.
• Bishop pleaded with Messenger, who promised to protect him, then asked Doctor for help.

Feng Ling and the Star Society members fought through the Corpse Soldiers as Witch tried to escape with Bishop, until the Labyrinth Master appeared and killed Messenger. Feng Ling was badly wounded by its lightning-fast attack, while Doctor and Meteor argued over whether to pursue Bishop.

• Doctor used the Serpent of Life to give Messenger a final burst of energy, and Witch fled with Bishop as Meteor attacked them.
• The Stitched Beast struck Meteor, but Feng Ling unleashed Mental Pressure and pierced the beast with Steel Blades after it refused to log off.
• Messenger blasted the Corpse Soldiers away, and the Labyrinth Master rose from the sand and instantly beheaded him.
• The Labyrinth Master attacked Feng Ling, piercing the left side of her face and eye before Witch and Doctor escaped with Bishop.
• Doctor stopped to heal Meteor, who urged her to pursue Bishop before he could log off, and Feng Ling heard them.

The Witch and the boy were trapped behind the Iron Gate while Feng Ling battled the Lion-headed Warrior outside. Feng Ling gained the upper hand, but as the wounded Boss knelt and roared, Meteor feared it was about to unleash a dangerous attack.

• The Witch threw the boy down when Meteor attacked, but Feng Ling cut off Meteor’s arm and dragged Meteor and Doctor out of the passage with Fangs and Claws.
• The Witch tried to escape through a hole made by the Tiger Head Worm, but found the passage beneath the floor packed with Yellow Sand.
• The Lion-headed Warrior cut Doctor in half at the thigh while Meteor escaped and hid; Feng Ling announced she had found the Boss’s weakness at its ankles.
• Feng Ling fought the Lion-headed Warrior, blocking its attacks and repeatedly striking its legs, while Meteor and Doctor stayed out of the crossfire.
• Feng Ling and the Tiger Head Worm wounded the Lion-headed Warrior until it slowed, then the Boss dropped to its knees and roared.

Feng Ling survived the Lion-headed Warrior’s sandstorm attack, killed the Labyrinth Boss, and caught Doctor and the wounded Meteor near the passageway. As Feng Ling held Meteor, Meteor prepared to use the Golden Cicada, her last remaining escape.

• Feng Ling endured the Lion-headed Warrior’s Yellow Sand cavalry assault, then killed it by piercing its throat and heart and hacking apart its limbs.
• Feng Ling used the Boss’s Card for Nest Building and took Messenger’s four extracted Cards, but found no Card from the Stitched Beast.
• Feng Ling pursued a fleeing Red Dot, found Doctor instead of Meteor, and threatened to cut her into smaller pieces.
• Feng Ling attacked the passageway blindly and caught the wounded Meteor after Doctor called out and revealed her location.
• Meteor looked at Doctor, then readied the Golden Cicada, which had one use remaining.

Meteor escaped the Flood Dragon Serpent and pursued the boy, but Drunkard intervened and warned that killing the Demon King could lead to Rebirth in the missing Poet. Drunkard revealed that killing the Labyrinth Administrator would not end the game; the Mazes themselves had to disappear.

• Meteor used a Golden Cicada to escape Feng Ling and fled toward the passage after the Labyrinth Boss died.
• Witch escaped with Bishop and met Drunkard, who said human forces were approaching and Momo's Teleportation Array was ruined.
• Meteor arrived and insisted that the boy had to die, but Drunkard opposed killing him because the Demon King could undergo Rebirth.
• Witch told Drunkard that Doctor was dead, raising the Rebirth chance among the remaining vessels to one in three.
• Drunkard warned Meteor that the Demon King might be reborn in Poet and said the game would end only if the Mazes disappeared.

Feng Ling tracked Meteor through the passage while Drunkard and Witch prepared a Teleportation Array to escape. As Feng Ling caught up, Meteor and the others confronted the Hidden Boss, and Drunkard used Witch’s potions to prepare for a fight.

• Feng Ling discovered that Meteor had escaped by leaving behind a thin layer of skin, then killed Doctor and collected Doctor’s three Cards.
• Feng Ling used Mother’s Longing to track Meteor through the passage and saw her approaching a giant skeleton and two figures in the rain.
• Drunkard and Witch learned the Maze was the game’s anchor point and searched for level ground to set up their Teleportation Array.
• Drunkard decided to hold off the Hidden Boss while Witch and Meteor escaped, and Witch gave Drunkard potions that boosted her defense, attack, speed, and critical hit rate.
• Bishop ran off, Meteor tackled him, and Feng Ling charged at the group as the Skeletal Monstrosity blocked her Steel Blade.

Feng Ling fought Meteor and Drunkard, but a strange vision and her high Corruption Value disrupted the battle and let them escape with the Short-legged Sheep. She realized the frightened boy was her Labyrinth Administrator and waited for Ye Zheng's team to arrive.

• Drunkard and Meteor struggled against Feng Ling's tentacle attacks as she seized the boy, but Feng Ling suddenly saw a vision of a burning landscape and Drunkard wounded her with an arrow.
• Feng Ling's attacks drove Drunkard and Meteor toward the Teleportation Array, but her Boss Mark flickered with the words Root of All Things · Mother Nest, and the two escaped with the Short-legged Sheep.
• After the Xenomorphs vanished, Feng Ling's burning visions returned until she changed back into human form and recognized the boy as her Labyrinth Administrator.
• Feng Ling released the boy when touching him brought back a vision of the Hive Labyrinth, then vowed to deal with Meteor later.
• Ye Zheng, Huang Yi, and several Inspectors arrived by helicopter, and Ye Zheng demanded to know how Feng Ling had lost half her face.